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i (imp-. 220-210 v i.- huh w j mTfym m 11 afiU U 1 Mp wi:-' ISDULh -n ghts ihe - AYNESVILLE MOUNTAINEER TODAY'S SMILE Preacher "Stop! Do you think a class of that Tile staff will quench your thirst?" Sot "No. I'm folnr to ' drink the whole bottle." -) - Published Twice-A-Week In The County Seat of Haywood County At The Eastern Entrance Of The Great Smoky Mountains National Park W HE farmer came up )t in the Court f some lime he federal agency's am. ct change except 0 pay the penny had to break a V t," smiled Miss a of the Triple the extra cent." ut it in the six tlowed. But he he came into the nd gave her five ided pretty wor veterinarian an- the caller said, o'uble?" this big bowl of able. Must have Hon of the stuff, iie room to go to was the only one pretty good. ,'. we went back to Jgnog. the only one in ( didri't look so asn't any eggnog." ribed some medi lext day the man kfl, doc." he said. X better." il a pause, hlng, though." the "he never did it ;ry time he sees a j snarls at it." ?port the man passed the S board, it was 10 before Christmas, id gave a 50-cent carrying a coriplr he passed by it pping days before itmas," he said as hree gaily-wrapped other arm, and pocket. ,he left a quarter ird. Tiber 20 when the again. dug deep, and put 8 board, smiled a 5nt on, firmly clasp istmas packages, day before Christ iht snow had silver and southern ridges. ad his coat collar nst the biting wind quinted against the ped when he came hand in one pocket hand in his other d through, extract ing the burnt match Id pocket knife with ade. und a coin. - it a minute, sighed. . on the dime board. ny. charge smiled sym- "n fled, too. His smile Jast He man was play ith his five-year-old t was playing the box of cmokies," he she replied gravely. i it?" Yon got?" nts," FAIR ec. 29 Fair and con- aynesville tempera ed by the staff of t Farm): Max. Min. Pcpt. . 60 52 . .02 59 23 .45 49 12 -49 n - - -S4 , 40 .82 -.61 43 .03 59 27 GithYLAK NO. 106 16 . ml js Little Carolyn Sue Winchester will In fact, right after the New Year rolls in Sunday morning, Carolyn Sue will be a year old. She was the first baby born in Haywood county in 1949, and is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Beecher Win chester, of route one. She is shown here checking the calendar, as her picture was made by Ingram's Studio. Who Will Be First Baby Born In County In 1950? Power Firm Gets Lot Done In WNC In 1949 The Carolina Power and Light Company's job of stepping up the Canton - Hazelwood transmission I line and expanding the three sub stations is expected to be com pleted in about 60 days. This was reported today by H. M. Burleson, manager of the com pany's Hazelwood office. When the work is finished, the line will carry 66,000 volts. It currently is carrying 22,000. Mr. Burleson explained that the $139,000 expansion job, started 'about the first of November, was I made necessary by the great in i crease in power customers over the last three years. It also gives concrete evidence of the growth of the county in gen eral. Mr. Burleson said, for instance, that in the seven years he has served in Hazelwood, the company's customers have grown from 1,000 to 2,500. The term "customer" ranges from individual people to towns and corporations. The substations being expanded are those serving the Waynesville and Hazelwood areas and the Day ton Rubber Company plant at (See Power Firm Page 8) Brown Gives County Tax Listers For 1950 George A. Brown. Jr . chairman of the Haywood County Board of Commissioners, today reminded the county's property owners and taxpayers that January is the time to list their holdings. He also announced the names of the 1950 listers. These are: Beaverdam. V. H. Byers; Cata- loochee. Mack Caldwell; Cecil. Kin Browning; Crabtree, C. T. Noland; East Fork. Ken Burnett; White Oak, Odie Fish; Fines Creek, Jack Ferguson; Iron Duff, Manson Med ford; Ivy Hill. Ernest Carver; Jonathan Creek. N. W. Carver: Pigeon, Gay Burnett. He issued these instructions: AH property owners and tax payers in Haywood county are re quired lo return to the list takers for taxation for the year 1950 a statement of all the real estate, nprsnnal nroDertv. and other items that are In the owners' possession on January 1, 1350. All males between the ages of 21 and 50 are required to list their polls during the same time. All persons who fail to list the property they own and liable for poll tax are subject to a charge of a misdemeanor. Failure to list carries a penalty of $2. . PAGES Associated Press Miss Haywood 1949 Soon To Be One Year Old soon observe her first birthdav. A small mountain of gifts is be ing made for a white baby who has not yet been born, It will go to the Haywood coun ty Infant who first sees the light of day In 1950. The baby who is the first one born in the New Year will be the j winner of The Mountaineer's an i nual contest. ' And it's prizes will be the ones listed in the advertisements printed on the third page of the second section in this paper. Here are the rules of this "First Baby" contest: The parents must be white resi dents of Haywood county. The actual day, hour, and min ute of birth must be confirmed by the attending physician. The baby's birth certificate must be submitted at the time of entry into the contest. This certificate will, of course, be returned. The decision of the judges, which will be final, will be announced on Monday. Entries must be submitted to The Mountaineer not later than 10 a. m. Monday. The prizes which will be award ed to Haywood county's first baby of 1950 are donated by Pet Dairy, Curtis Drug Store, Firestone, E. J. Lilius. Haywood Builders Supply, Belk-Hudson. First State Bank, Crawford Funeral Home, Waynes ville Laundry, Garrett Furniture Company and Junaluska Supply Company. Mrs. Mark Killian of Asheville, was the guest of Miss Nancy Kil lian for Christmas. Miss Reba Kinsland, daughter of Mrs. Lonnie Kinsland of Crabtree, is home from Brenau College for the holidays. Babson Gives BUSINESS AND FINANCIAL OUTLOOK FOR 1950 By ROGER W. BABSON I 1. The total volume of business : for 1950 will be less than that of 1949. due primarily to the unfor tunate labor conflicts. Considering I that the Innocent consumer will be the chief sufferer and will be J obliged to pay the bills, it seems I too bad that labor troubles should upset the applecart. LABOR OUTLOOK 2. Even with all the threats, there will be few wage increases i during 1950. On the other hand, all labor negotiations take the minds of both the employees and the man I aeement off their regular business. However these negotiations come out, they result In a loss from the standpoint of the county as a whole. 3. There will be fewer strikes in 1950 than in 1949, but there will not be fewer extended negotiations and United Press News WAYNESVILLE, N. C. THURSDAY AFTERNOON, DEC. 29, Santa Claus Was Very Good To Merchants Here I Christmas jHere Nearly 'Wreckless' i A fic.ik accident which gave a I 12-year-old hoy a minor injury ! Monday right was the only incident ! marring a Christ uuis weekend that was one of the mildest Hay Mood County has experienced since the automobile ai;d the gun were invented. i Otherwise, stale, county and town olficers reported in elTecl, peace on earth was a literal truth for Haywood's citizens. Kven the usual holiday cele brants v.Ihi find some of their cheer in bottles were scarce scarc er, in fact, than I hey arc on any other weekend. No other town can heal Clyde's Christmas record. One officer said: "I didn't see a single drunk, and haven't been able to find anyone else who saw one. "If there was one in town Christ mas weekend, he must have gone through, awfully fast." There were no traffic accidents. (See Christmas Pnee 8) Deadline Is Dec. 31 For Filing Late State Income Tax Only two more davs to file your back slate income taxes. Deputy Stale Tax Collector Fred Walslon today reminded eligible Haywood and Jackson County citi zens of the rapid passage of time. He explained that those who voluntarily file their delinquent returns for 1946, 1947, or 1948, he fore the New Year's Eve deadline will not be subject to the state penalties assessed for --delinquent returns. The returns for the current year 1949, however, may he filed any jlime up to midr.iglit March 15. I 1950. I Mr. Walston has the proper tax return forms in his office in the basement of the Haywood County Court House. Alert Workers Save Clyde Church From Alert church workers quickly formed an old-fashioned bucket brigade Saturday night to save the 100-year-old Camp Ground Church of Clyde from certain destruction by fire. The six people were preparing the main chapel of the old North ern Methodist church for a Christ mas program which was to be held that night when one of them no ticed a portion of the wall next to the outlet of the pipe from the stove was burning. They organized themselves into a bucket brigade, obtaining water from a neighboring house. When Clyde firemen with their hose cart and a Canton fire depart 1950 Business Outlook 1950 IN A NUTSHELL General Business: Off 5'r Auto Manufactures: Off 15'f National Income: Off 5rf Build's. Construction: Off 7"r Farm Income: Off 15' 4- Natural Gas: Up 5'r Bituminous Coal: Up h'4 Forricn Trade: No change Anthracite: Off 5'i Airline Pass'g'r Miles: Up 5'r Crude Oil Products: UP 5' Military Activities Steel Output: Off 5'r Includine Aircraft: Up 20 RETAIL TRADE $ Volume): Off 3", to 10", which are very expensive in them selves. 4. The Taft-Hartley Law will continue to stand throughout 1950, although many schemes for detour ing this law will be devised. 5. The great drive against the big companies will be for pensions andor for sick and other benefits. These will probably be helpful to the wageworkers and may aid in ironing out the business cycle, but they will be paid for by consumers. 6. It is hoped that all parties will begin to realize during 1950 that the real road to naional pro ; The Waynesville area's mer 1 chants had a Merry Christmas. A spot check today indicated that the Christmas sales season this year was at least as good if not bet 1 ter than last year's. Some merchants reported that both sales receipts and sales vol- unie reached last year's figures, and passed them in some instances. Others reported that the vol ume of sales was as great or great er hut that in some instances the receipts were slightly lower. The principal cause of this was, in the gi ner.il opinion of the mer chants, that people spent less money but bought more. Prices also were ten to 20 per cent lower than they were during the I94fl Christmas sales season. The buying trends showed that v. here a person bought a suit as a 1 gill last year, he bought a couple of shirt s for Christmas this year, j Both merchants and customers showed new trends in Christmas 'selling and shopping that were ab sent last year, store owners indi cated. One Innovation that made the volume comfortahlv hinh was the j holding of winter bargain sales be fore the holiday instead of after Christmas. The customers also diverted from the almost traditional custom of creating the last-minute shopping rush One merchant said he did more business the week to ten days before Christmas than ho did last year. This year, they bought earli er and they bought steadier. One merchant reported that his main Christmas business came dur ing the week before Decern her l!l. The sales of expensive luxury Hems was lower I'enerallv than 1 1 hey were last year. But the sales of the ' less expensive gifts rose ' correspondingly higher. ! In the sales of individual items. ; nylon goods for men and women land toys generally led the gift i parade. ! Several stores sold out of their toy stocks completely several days before the weekend, while others reported their stocks were close to rock bottom shortly before the sales week closed. ! The gross .sales receipts for the J stores of the- area had not been computed by the tini the Moun 'taineer went to press. But it was difficult lo find a sad 'face on Main Street this morning. 100-Year-Old Burning Down ment truck arrived, they found the blaze already under control. Th firemen removed part of the scorched wall to check the adja cent storeroom for .smouldering matter. The Clyde Police Department gave the church workers full credit for saving the old frame building, praising them for their alertness and swiff action. If the blaze had gained any head way at all, one official declared, it would have swept through the en tire structure. It is one of the oldest churches in Haywood County. The damage was estimated at $20 at the most. gress is through increasing produc tion and greater efficiency. This is the bright light we see in the labor situation. COMMODITY, PRICES 7. Movements in commodity prices during 1950 will vary with different groups of industries and of products, but altogether there will be a general lowering during 1950. 8. We, therefore, advise going easy on inventories. 1950 fs a time to get out of debt and stay out of debt. Speculation in commodities (See Babson Page 2) Honored m ';:-:s?s.: m GEORGE WALLACE BROWN, son of Mr. and Mrs. George A. Brown, Jr., of Waynesville, was one of the two North Carolina college delegates who attended the convention of Beta Beta Beta, national honorary science fraternity, in New York City last Tuesday. The 20 - y e a r - o I d Waynesville youth, a senior at Wake Forest College, was se lecled lo attend the convention on the basis of his outstanding academic record. Waynesville Boy Named Delegate To Science Meet George Wallace Brown, 20-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. George A. Brown, Jr., of Waynesville, was one of the only two North Carolina college and ' u'nlve'rsUy students named to attend this week's con vention of their national honorary science fraternity. He left Monday afternoon by train In time for the opening of the convention in New York City the following day. The organization is Beta Beta Beta, a national fraternity of bi ology students. Young Brown, a 1947 graduate of Waynesville Township High School, was chosen to represent Wake Forest where he is studying as a senior in pre-medical school. The youth attended Mars Hill College for two years before trans ferring to Wake Forest. He will receive his Bachelor of Science de gree next spring, winding up his pre-med studies in three years by virtue of the fact that he continu ed his studies during his summer vacations. Brown's classroom work has landed him in the top ten students of his class and his record earned him an appointment as an assist ant instructor last fall. When he applied to be admitted next fall to the University of North Carolina School of Medi cine, the officluls there studied his record, then immediately approved his application. "This boy," said one of the Uni versity officials, "has one of the finest scholastic reeords. we have ever received from an applicant to the school." Only three other Wake Forest pre-med students were accepted for admission to the school next year. The Waynesville boy is schedul ed to return to his home here from New York today or tomorrow. County People Give Toys To Boy Seriously 111 Six-year-old Norman Lewis was still holding on this morning in his fight for his life. He returned to his grandparents' home on Lee Street with his par ents last Tuesday from Haywood County Hospital. The boy, ill with a rare rheum atic disease, received his visit from Santa Claus last Thursday because it was feared he would not live to see the regular Christmas Day. During the last eight weeks, the boy had been going to the hospital periodically for transfusions. Santa, assisted by Radio An nouncer Don Matney, and Mrs. Ben Phillips of the station, took the nearly 50 gifts radio listeners had given and brought them to the boy's bedside in Haywood County Hospital. The child's pale, wan face brightened and his eyes shone as (See County People Pace 8) 1949 $3.00 In Advance In New Fertilizer Plant Here May Open Feb. 1 Folks Aid Homeless Family Here Within 48 hours after a fire left Cari Stanley and his family home less, people from Waynesville and the surrounding country had re placed practically everything they had lost. "About all we need now," said Stanley, "is n house." The fire that destroyed their home on Smothers Street the Wed nesday before Christmas left Mr, Stanley and his wife and their three children with practically nothing but the clothes they wore and two water-soaked beds. Mrs. Stanley learned of the fire only afterward, for she was in an Asheville hospital with the Stan ley's newborn infant. Waynesville policemen immedi ately went to work appealing to the people for help. Jim Aldridge, Mrs. Stanley's father, opened his home on Smath ers street to the family. And people began showering them with cash, food, furniture, and clothing. Up to today, they had given them $130 in cash, a large supply of groceries, a cook stove and heater, clothing for the children, beds, mattresses, and bed clothing. Lions Club Christmas Fund Tops $1700 Haywood county folks hoth as 4ndividuals and organizations. poured $1,720 into the Waynesville Lions Club's Christmas Cheer fund and gave enough toys to make more than 300 children happy. Chairman Boyd Owen of the club's health and welfare commit tee gave the figures today in re porting the success of the 1949 campaign. After estimating the funds the club members spent in taking cere of the needy children, anrl in nav. ! ing for advertising, he said these contributions had been great enough to leave a small surplus which will be used subsequently in the organization's other welfare projects. The club's first three-hour radio program drew $130 from radio listeners who wanted to hear their neighbors sing. But the second did twice as good. Listenrs contributed approxi mately $240 to the Cheer Fund in making their requests for perfor mances on the second and final broadcast which was held last Thursday night. Radio Chairman Lester Burgin, Jr., reported that the response was so enthusiastic the program had to extend its time by a full 30 minutes to take care of all the requests. The funds contributed in the radio broadcast are included in the (See Lions Club Page 8) Woody Named A Director Of Federal Bank Jonathan Woody recently was named a director of the Charlotte Branch of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, Va. His appointment is for a three year term which will start offici ally Sunday. The announcement- was made by Charles P. McCormick, board chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank. Car Damaged, No One Hurt In Mishap Wed. A 1949 Chevrolet sedan collid ed with a telephone pole shortly after midnight' yesterday near the Dayton Rubber Company plant In Hazelwood. Investigating oficers Arthur P. Evans and Hub Ruff reported no one was injured, however, and the damage amounted to about $250. Haywood and Jackson Counties v Waynesville's new $100,000 fer tilizer plant is expected to go into production about February 1. This was reported this week by C. G. Thompson, president of the newly-organized Smoky Mountains Fertilizer Company, which will operate the factory "If all goes well," as he put It. David Underwood, local con tractor who is handling the con struction, reported last week that the building job was nearly 50 per cent complete. The new plant will produce an estimated 25,000 to 50,000 tons of chemical plant foods during its first year of operation. Mr. Thompson, a veteran of near ly quarter of a century in the fer tilizer industry, reported the new- factory would produce: 3-9-6 Tobacco Special; 4-10-6 fer tilizer; 6-8-6 Truck and Corn Spe cial; 7-7-7 Apple Grower; 5-10-5 fertilizer; 2-12-12, 0-14-14, and 0- 9-27 alfalfa and pasture. The last three grades, he added, would be put out either with or without borax added. He also said the plant would feature Blue Ridge brands'. One; of them probably named Pigeon, River 3-9-6 Tobacco Special, an other probably will be called Mt, Pisgah 6-8-6 Truck and Corn Spe cial, and the rest will carry the Blue Ridge label. The owners bought five acres of land last November near the Royle and Pilkington Company building as the site for the new factory. Serving with Mr. Thompson as principal officers of the company as secretary; and W. L. Harwell of Kingston, Tenn., vice-president and treasurer. For 20 years, Mr. Thompson was associated with the Atlanta, Ga., office of International Minerals and Chemical Corporation of Chi cago, III., then joined the Louis (See New Plant Page 8) Boy Escapes With Minor Injury In Auto Accident A freak traffic accident Monday evening sent 12-vear-old Bobbv Lewis McCracken of Saunook to the hospital with a gash at the back of his head. He returned home the next day, however. State Highway Patrolman H. Dayton gave these details. Holding his raincoat over his head to shield himself from the steady rain, the boy waited by the side of Highway 19A-23 near the Fish Hatchery until a car passed. Then he started walking diagon ally across the road. James Edward Clay. Jr., of Sylva, driving several yards be hind the first car, saw the boy, blew his horn, swerved to his left, and jammed on his brakes to a void hitting him. But the boy apparently walked into the right front side of Clay's car as it reached the center of the highway, and struck his head a gainst the post beside the wind shield. Clay's car continued across the road and ran into the ditch. The boy was taken to Haywood County Hospital by his brother. Carl McCracken. who was working at a filling station a few yards frcm the scene of the accident when the boy was injured. Patrolman Dayton reported Clay's car didn't have so much as a scratch to show for the accident. on Highway Record For 1949 (To DU) In Haywood Killed.... 8 Injured ... 42 (This tniormaUoa com ' piled ron Becordt of " Stat Highway Patrol).